Wanna be a Pro? You've got to have this.

Lexar 800x 64GB UDMA 7 Compact Flash memory card. I have tried it, it is super fast and have a massive storage capacity. You really need this at least if not the bigger and faster one, if you are really into shooting HD video with DSLR. Not to forget, only if you use a body which can accept CF card, ;).

The CF card below is not mine, a colleague of mine was very generous to let me try out this small beast. If you are in Malaysia, the same capacity and speed regardless of the brand, the price can go as high as 800 to 1000 MYR which so much more expensive compared to the US retail price which around $120 USD (MYR 360). If you buy from BH photo for example, you'll be charge about 50 USD for courier and if you unlucky (if the custom officer manage to spot your parcel containing taxable items), an additional 10% from the purchase price for import duty imposed by the malaysian custom.

Canon EOS 5D MK II has officially discontinued

MKA,

A great camera at time of its release and will still be a great camera for years after its discontinuation. There not many electronic items like this which its existence has changed they way human work in its specific area.

5D Mk II was the first DSLR to enable video recording. It is not just the pioneer, but also produces excellent performance which its competitors are still struggling to compete until today.

Once it was a general perception that there is no other way to produce a professional video quality without having to carry a bulky and very heavy equipments. Not forget an army of video crew as well.

Producing a cinematic or near cinematic quality in an extremely tight spaces was completely impossible.

To shoot a high quality HD video with professional or professional like quality video by a normal person like you or me once was only in our imagination.

5D Mk II has unlocked so many impossibility in photography. It has changed some aspect in the way how we take pictures, how we shoot video, how dark we can go etc etc.

Maybe it is not too much to say that 5D Mk II is the most influential and popular DSLR in the history.

Good bye old friend.

KL Night Panorama

This shot was taken from the window of my office. I was staying until night to clear some backlogs. It is not common for our company stay back late, but sometimes we really have to as the the papers starting to pile up on the desk.

Gouda, the Netherlands

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